Re: checkdoc (was: mh-e 6.2 imminent)

From:

Henrik Enberg

Subject:

Re: checkdoc (was: mh-e 6.2 imminent)

Date:

Sat, 02 Nov 2002 01:58:36 +0100

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Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu)

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> I think it's pretty natural to end them with -face. For one thing, it
> makes it easy to look up with apropos. And take something like
> `font-lock-keyword-face', what would be a better name? the current
> name is self-documenting.
>
> But we don't want to end all of them with `face'. It would be a pain
> in the neck if faces like `italic' and `underline' ended that way.
Those kinds on names are pretty common when it comes to
typography, but names like font-lock-keyword or diff-added would be
less clear.
> Have you actually used this to look them up with apropos?
Occasionally, when I was a newbie, though I didn't know about
list-faces-display then. I think Miles idea about an appropos-face
command sounds useful.
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